Abstract：
:Gap junctions (GJs) assembled from connexin (Cx) proteins allow direct cell-cell communication. While phosphorylation is known to regulate multiple GJ functions, much less is known about the role of ubiquitin in these processes. Using ubiquitylation-type-specific antibodies and Cx43 lysine-to-arginine mutants we show that ∼8% of a GJ, localized in central plaque domains, is K63-polyubiquitylated on K264 and K303. Levels and localization of ubiquitylation correlated well with: (1) the short turnover rate of Cxs and GJs; (2) removal of older channels from the plaque center; and (3) the fact that not all Cxs in an internalizing GJ channel need to be ubiquitylated. Connexins mutated at these two sites assembled significantly larger GJs, exhibited much longer protein half-lives and were internalization impaired. Interestingly, these ubiquitin-deficient Cx43 mutants accumulated as hyper-phosphorylated polypeptides in the plasma membrane, suggesting that K63-polyubiquitylation is triggered by phosphorylation. Phospho-specific anti-Cx43 antibodies revealed that upregulated phosphorylation affected serines 368, 279/282 and 255, which are well-known regulatory PKC and MAPK sites. Together, these novel findings suggest that the internalizing portion of channels in a GJ is K63-polyubiquitylated, ubiquitylation is critical for GJ internalization and that phosphorylation induces Cx K63-polyubiquitylation.This article has an associated First Person interview with the first author of the paper.
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J Cell Scijournal_title
Journal of cell scienceauthors
Kells-Andrews RM,Margraf RA,Fisher CG,Falk MMdoi
10.1242/jcs.204321subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-08-09 00:00:00issue
15eissn
0021-9533issn
1477-9137pii
jcs.204321journal_volume
131pub_type
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